A jury in Columbus returned a $2.775 million verdict for an injured Cherokee County law enforcement officer on March 13, just before the new coronavirus pandemic shuttered courts and all nonessential gatherings in Georgia.

“It was probably one of the last civil jury trials we’re going to see for a little while, given the COVID-19 outbreak and the shutting down of courthouses across the state,” said winning plaintiff’s counsel M. Chase Swanson of Jones & Swanson in Marietta. “So many things happened in that trial that will never happen again.”